Sunday, February 28, 2010

Turn a Square for Claire

Well, my hilarious Knitting Olympics hopes of gold, as expected, about as viable as those of my Olympic boyfriend Johhny Weir (totally robbed btw). The FLS is about 1/3 of the way done. Which is fine--I'm loving the pattern and Cascade 220 was such the right choice. So, sometime next week when the name 'Lindsay Vonn' is but a distant memory, I will be sporting this baby in style.But fear not--I did actually complete a project during these auspicious games. A hat for a five year old mind you, but hey, it's done and I'm quite happy with it. Several weeks ago I made a hat for Meredith's son Ellis, and so it was only matter of time until I obliged his big sister, Claire. Enter the most adaptable hat pattern ever, Turn-a-Square...The Specs:Pattern: Turn a Square by Jared FloodYarn: MC Malabrigo Worsted, 1/4 a skein in 'Shocking Pink'; CC 1/3 of a skein of Mochi Plus in 'Strawberry-Lime Rainbow' (the name is gag-worthy, but the yarn works).Needles: size 5 & size 6Mods: Because this was for a 5 yo, I went down several needle sizes and cast on 88 sts. At the increase round, I only added 4 sts for a total of 92 sts. I knit 3.5 inches from the cast on before the decrease row.I wanted to use some crazy pink Malabrigo remnants for this pattern and was delighted to find out that it matched the Mochi Plus gauge-wise perfectly. Both are single ply yarns and look perfect together.I think I might have a new go-to baby knit. This pattern is so easy to adapt, and rather than get sucked into to the vortex of the Baby Surprise Jacket (which always takes about 2x longer than you think it should), you could pound these out for the Dion quintuplets in no.time.flat.

Cute hate - and thank you for letting me on the details, so I can modify it too:) I have some malabrigo dying to be knit. And "vortex" and "bsj" - I would have never put those two words together, but damn, it works.

Holy Crap! You actually know who the Dionne quintuplets were!!! They were born about the same time as my Dad, so Grandma had pictures of them in a scrapbook she made. I can't believe there other people around my age who've even heard of them. The hat is nice, too. You rock!

Your TAS is so charming... and composed of one of my favorite color combinations: pink & green.

I'm there with you about BSJs. I cannot knit them quickly, in spite of the miles of garter. The last one I did was especially long because of the striping and subsequent darning in of ends. But, it's oh so pretty afterwards.